These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential
Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In "Briar Rose" a sleeping beauty
is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which
someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and
defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains
on the thorns of a briar hedge.
